Why Doctors Get Punished

Doctors get punished for weird reasons

[Judo]

“Oh no, I missed the noon discharge deadline. Welp, I don’t wanna get in trouble again. Guess I’ll discharge the patient tomorrow before noon.”

[yuvalne]

when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

[fulltimeslackerii]

Doctors should form mega clinics without administrators who aren’t medically trained

[sonyaevans]

I'm a former case manager, this video is 100% unexaggerated truth.

[chasehatchett]

as someone who isnt a medical professional, this shit is disturbing. Glad yall have a sense of humor about it.

[NerdyMusicChef]

This is exactly why healthcare shouldn’t be for profit. Profit and what’s best for patients almost never intersects.

[kharden]

I got written up for staying late to ensure all wound care was completed because the same dressings I had applied 2 days prior were still on my patients. The several shifts of nurses who didn’t do the care but punched out on time had zero repercussions. It is why I retired early…

[pippagrey]

I loath hospital metrics. I was a unit secretary on a trauma unit, and I saw them literally coding a patient on the way from the OR so they could delay the pronouncement of death until they were officially a floor patient, and it wouldn't ding the OR stats. The patient had been stabbed multiple times, and the surgeons couldn't close the holes fast enough, even giving 40 units of blood, but God forbid someone dies in the OR....

[somethingakintome]

It's weird to me that hospitals are run like consulting firms. Because people are not project management but the more they're treated they way the more "providers" (ie consultants) suddenly find their time managed by metrics. Private equity, and for profit hospitals are a dead end for holistic care.

[DreadKittenOZ]

This is why a friend’s grandma couldn’t have a life saving brain aneurysm surgery by a confident Dr and instead had a WEB device placed by another Dr who wasn’t confident that it would work… cause that way she could go home to die and not potentially on their tables… (it didn’t work and the aneurysm is still growing)
It’s not about saving lives anymore it’s about looking good on paper. 🤬

[coffeetalk]

All greedy corporations function this way. I worked at a big box electronics store. I remember a 7am mandatory company meeting around December 2018 on a 🥶 cold snowy Saturday when most of us were closers. (Many clopeners also who'd need to open the store at 10, so a gap of unpaid time for 2 hours just sitting in your car after the meeting.)
Manager Cassandra said she'd fire whomever didn't show up.
Then she proceeded to talk for an hour about stock margins, taxes, and interest rates of her personal savings of 100G and how her daughter's college costs depended on her bonus, which she was trying to psyche up us regular workers to meet her metric. (She being mgmt had no way to do this except through the actual workers.)
She spoke as if she was inspiring us to be as wealthy as her if we'd just work harder. (They'd cut out the ability for non- administrative employees to even be able to earn any bonuses a year or so prior.) She promised us things like free pizza for the crew if she got her bonus.
The audacity gets me to this very day. At that time one of the cashiers was an 18 y/o kid, who was living in his car. Cassandra was so out of touch that her meeting backfired and made every employee whisper to each other about doing the bare minimum possible to keep our jobs.
As if we cared about her bonus that was 5 times our year's wages.

[JoanieBC]

Been there, done that, got written up for not making the period at the end of a sentence apparent enough, which confused my department manager despite the space after the last word, and the capital letter starting the next sentence. Everyone, including my union rep said there was obviously a period present, but department manager said it looked like a piece of dust. She was trying to establish grounds to fire me, regardless of how ridiculous the write-up claims were.

[rickypen]

I ended up on the naughty list because a patient on my panel was discharged while I was off for the day, but whoever discharged them didnt do a DC Summary. So it fell under me because i did the patients last progress note. I had no clue until my name was posted in the doctors lounge for all to see.. .

[dalebumpaous]

*doctor caused life threatening issues*
Board: I sleep
*doctor is 5 seconds late turning paperwork*
Board: REAL PROBLEMS

[mo_diddley]

And yet, doctors that majorly screw up due to negligence seem to be rarely held accountable

[TheSHADW]

So true yet so terrible. On nursing side it’s cutting staff, doing all modules during your shift, and performing more duties to save money which gets more bonuses for higher ups.

[Carnerd]

Dang, I never knew it had THIS much red tape. I could not thrive in that environment. No wonder there's a shortage of good doctors and nurses.

[ProbablyPassionate]

Administrator bonuses depend on it.
All hail great Cthulhu!

[christopherhall]

"I saved that persons life"
"But you didn't use the proper cover letter on your TPS reports, you're fired"

[alexchavez]

Duh, administrators have to justify their salaries, since they earn more than you.